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Debunking the mysteries of deep reinforcement learning Demystifying one of the most interesting branches of AI States, rewards, and actions At the heart of everyreinforcement learningproblem are an agent and an environment. The environment provides information about the state of the system. The agent observes these states and interacts with the environment by taking actions. Actions can be discrete (e.g., flipping a switch) or continuous (e.g., turning a knob). These actions cause the environment to transition to a new state....

Debunking the mysteries of deep reinforcement learning Demystifying one of the most interesting branches of AI States, rewards, and actions At the heart of everyreinforcement learningproblem are an agent and an environment. The environment provides information about the state of the system. The agent observes these states and interacts with the environment by taking actions. Actions can be discrete (e.g., flipping a switch) or continuous (e.g., turning a knob). These actions cause the environment to transition to a new state....

Decolonizing the internet starts with looking at media history Is it possible to decolonize today’s largest global communication platform? Media ancestors It is also important to contextualize the decolonization debate in reference to the internet by looking at its ancestors – other institutions of communication. As a researcher in media studies, I have a special interest in thehistory of the mediaand how media institutions arein conversationwith the concept of colonialism or coloniality....

Decolonizing the internet starts with looking at media history Is it possible to decolonize today’s largest global communication platform? Media ancestors It is also important to contextualize the decolonization debate in reference to the internet by looking at its ancestors – other institutions of communication. As a researcher in media studies, I have a special interest in thehistory of the mediaand how media institutions arein conversationwith the concept of colonialism or coloniality....

Decorators in Python will make your code so much better Analyze, test, and re-use your code with little more than an @ symbol Before anything else: higher-order functions In a nutshell, decorators are a neat way to handle higher-order functions. So let’s look at those first! Functions returning functions Say you have one function,greet()— it greets whatever object you pass it. And let’s say you have another function,simon()— it inserts “Simon” wherever appropriate....